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  • An Award for Unpopular Truth

    An Award for Unpopular Truth

    Bill Ackman and Roland Fryer want to make academic courage worth the risk.

    The powerful Woke Supremacy that has dominated American academic life in modern times has had many detrimental effects, but perhaps the greatest is that it has promoted academic self-censorship and…

  • No Tax Exemption for Racial Discrimination

    No Tax Exemption for Racial Discrimination

    Private colleges may soon have to choose between racial preferences and their tax exemption.

    Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on September 4, 2026. It is crossposted here with permission. The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue…

  • Did Iran Steal Your Dissertation?

    Did Iran Steal Your Dissertation?

    The IRGC built a hacking operation to steal the academic research Iran could not produce or freely access itself.

    As a graduate student, there is something flattering about knowing someone has read your work. It is considerably less flattering when someone steals and plagiarizes it. But when the thief…

  • On Agency

    On Agency

    Higher education taught us to look past personal responsibility.

    Higher education, especially the social sciences, has advanced for decades a cluster of ideas that systematically diminish personal agency. Students learn that individual outcomes such as academic achievement, professional conduct,…

  • WATCH: Rethinking How Universities Study Terrorism

    WATCH: Rethinking How Universities Study Terrorism

    Anne Bradley makes the case for bringing economics into the academic study of political violence.

    In an upcoming episode of Café Berlin, Lilla Nora Kiss and I are joined by Anne Bradley, the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and Academic Director at…

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  • Tinfoil Is Optional

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    A once-fringe subject is finding a home in university research.
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